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1 week ago

'The next fall guy': Mike Johnson described as perfect 'first scapegoat' for Trump

Should House Speaker Mike Johnson manage to hold onto the gavel during what promises to be a contentious vote on Friday, he may find that life as the leading Republican in the House of Representatives isn't all it's cracked up to be. Writing at MSNBC, James Downie makes the case that Johnson's reward for retaining the speakership will be to …

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2 weeks, 4 days ago

Chris Christie says Trump will dump Elon Musk when he needs a scapegoat

The Independent

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2 months ago

George Clooney taking step back from politics after being made a 'scapegoat' for Kamala Harris' loss

Daily Mail

George Clooney feels he is being used as a ‘scapegoat’ in the furious blame game over who could have cost Kamala Harris the election – and will now take a step back from politics. George Clooney feels he is being used as a ‘scapegoat’ in the furious blame game over who could have cost Kamala Harris the election – and …

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1 year ago

Editorial: California’s retail theft hearings scapegoat Proposition 47

LA Times

Razor blades are locked up behind a glass showcase at a CVS store in Woodland Hills to fight shoplifting. Three lengthy state hearings on California retail theft since mid-November have so far established that policymakers don’t understand why shoplifting and smash-and-grab robberies have increased since 2020. The unreliability of data about theft did not, however, stop some lawmakers and law …

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2 years ago

‘Ridiculous’: Ex-pilots say captain, crew made ‘scapegoat’ in Air India episode

Hindustan Times

A section of serving and retired pilots have strongly criticised the de-rostering of the captain and the crew of a New York-Delhi flight in which a male flier urinated on a female co-passenger in a drunken state. On Saturday, Air India’s CEO and Managing Director Campbell Wilson issued a statement in which he said that four cabin crew and one …

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2 years ago

Don't make captain, crew scapegoat in urinating incident: veteran pilots to Air India

The Hindu

A section of serving and retired pilots have strongly criticised the de-rostering of the captain and the crew of a New York-Delhi flight in which a male flier urinated on a female co-passenger in a drunken state. On Jan. 7, Air India’s CEO and Managing Director Campbell Wilson issued a statement in which he said that four cabin crew and …

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3 years, 4 months ago

I am being made scapegoat: IPS officer Rashmi Shukla to Bombay HC in phone tapping case

India Today

IPS officer Rashmi Shukla, named in the phone tapping case of the Maharashtra State Intelligence Department, told the Bombay High Court on Friday that she was being made a scapegoat by the Maharashtra government while the state's chief secretary, Sitaram Kunte, is getting protection. Rashmi Shukla's lawyer, advocate Mahesh Jethmalani, said it was Sitaram Kunte who had sanctioned phone tapping …

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4 years, 7 months ago

Trump flunkies try to scapegoat Anthony Fauci — but we all know who's really to blame

Salon

Just a month ago, I predicted that Donald Trump and his lickspittles in Congress and right-wing media were setting up Dr. Anthony Fauci as their scapegoat for Trump's massive failures. Now here we are, with the death toll from the novel coronavirus soaring past 83,000 and the unemployment rate at 15% and, sure enough, some of the worst Trump flunkies …

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